I pay $20 for ChatGPT, I ask it to criticize my code and ideas. Sometimes it's useful, sometimes it says bullshit. For a few months I used Gemini Pro, there wa

I pay $20 for ChatGPT, I ask it to criticize my code and ideas. Sometimes it's useful, sometimes it says bullshit. For a few months I used Gemini Pro, there was a period when it was better than OpenAI's model but they did something and now it's worse even though it answers faster so I cancelled my Google One subscription. I tried Claude Code over a few weekends, it definitely can do tiny projects quickly but I work in an industry where I need to understand every line of code and basically own my projects so it's not useful at all. Also, doing anything remotely complex involves so many twists I find the net benefit negative. Also because the normal side-effects of doing something is learning, and here I feel like my skills devolve. I also occasionally use Cerebras for quick queries, it's ultrafast. I also do a lot of ML so use Vast.ai, Simplepod, Runpod and others - sometimes I rent GPUs for a weekend, sometimes for a couple of months, I'm very happy with the results.